In high school, I learned the Civil War began when the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. I don’t know when today’s Civil War began, but I get the feeling the country has been fired upon. Last September, the Geneva Learners gathered at the library and discussed whether the U.S. will be – or already is –suffering a second civil war. • Civil war instigators from ethnic groups formerly politically dominant and now in declineSound familiar? “We need to ask not just what makes some people susceptible to manipulation, but also what in the mind’s “wiring” protects others,” Fisher writes.

Source: New York Times February 02, 2024 16:25 UTC